Catherine Hessling
Birthday: 1900-06-22
Place of Birth: Moronvilliers, Marne, France
Biography: Catherine Hessling, born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, was a French stage and screen actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.
Movies
The Little Match Girl
An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares,...
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Nana
Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and pr...
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Coralie and Company
A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house....
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La P’tite Lili
Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration...
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Charleston Parade
Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristi...
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Whirlpool of Fate
Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young...
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Little Red Riding Hood
This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever...
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Backbiters
About the conflict between social classes through the life of the unhappy Catherine Ferrand, an orph...
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Yvette
Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unawar...
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The Sad Sack
The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barrac...
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Sea Fever
The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive ...
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High and Low
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football...
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Crime and Punishment
Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears th...
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